That's a great point. The rate in which human mind evolves clearly is not catching up with software getting more and more intelligent (doing what you want to do with software Vs what software wants you to do). Last 15 years have definitely changed how humanity is evolving, partly because decision makers/ people in control couldn't anticipate what's going to happen and partly because it took time for the general public to understand what is happening. These two phenomena always counterbalanced each other time to time. This is probably the first time in history that they coincided.
Completely agree. The day they decided to go with ads there was no coming back. It's a public company now and they have an obligation towards their shareholders. Ads -> grabbing eyeballs -> evoking reactions. It's quite impossible to balance the interests of your customers(advertisers)vis users if one of them is not paying. They are too far along to do that.
I understand your point. Decentralized in the sense that we don't own your data or identity. It is owned and controlled by the user. Identities are verified by blockchain and all your data is stored in the cloud storage of your choice. As far as more information is concerned we have listed all the important points in the landing page which we felt was necessary. If you have any specific questions you can ask and we'll try best to answer that.
Social networking was never a waste of time. The fact that both of us don't know each other still exchanging ideas is a proof of that. Online social networking gave us the power to find people we might not find otherwise in an all offline world. It all got screwed up when the business models came into play and we became 'products' instead of 'users'.
We made https://pden.xyz because we felt a stripped down version of a social network with no like, share counts would work better for us.
For example, blockchain technology does provide a mechanism to shift the ownership of data and ownership to the users which wasn't there in 2.0. The ownership of data with the platforms was mainly responsible for creating business models completely based on advertisements.
I do agree with the blockchain tech still hasn't reached a stage where 'general public' can experience their usefulness. But the outright rejection of broader scope of the technology and declaring 'ledger' as the only legit case is equally not true. The reality should be somewhere in the middle.